York & Sawyer (Edward York and Philip Sawyer, active 1898–1949) designed 660 Park Avenue (1929) at the southwest corner of Park Avenue and East 67th Street — among the more architecturally restrained tier-one Park Avenue cooperatives, with a neoclassical limestone facade and rigorous floor-plan discipline. The firm's principal commissions were institutional and commercial: the Federal Reserve Bank of New York at 33 Liberty Street, the Cunard Building at 25 Broadway, the Brooklyn Trust Company, and the National City Bank Building. Their occasional residential commissions reflect the same disciplined classical training, producing apartments with formal entry galleries, library-living enfilades, and dedicated service infrastructure characteristic of upper-tier Park Avenue prewar inventory of the late 1920s.
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